Godly Quotes

          The following are quotes by Godly men, some from the distant past
     and some from more modern times, courtesy of Effectual Grace blog
     by John Samson.  


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          "Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly:
     I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior."
                                                                                    John Newton


          "All who are saved are saved as a result of what God does. 
     All who are lost are lost as a result of what they do."
                                                                                   Don Fortner


          "The doctrine of providence teaches Christians that they are never in
     the grip of blind forces (fortune, chance, luck, fate);  all that happens to
     them is divinely planned, and each event comes as a new summons to
     trust, obey, and rejoice, knowing that all is for one's spiritual and eternal
     good."   (Romans 8:28)
                                                                                  J.I. Packer


          "When God hardens hearts He gives them their freedom to exercise the
     evil of their own desires."
                                                                                 R.C. Sproul


          "Salvation is not a reward for the righteous;  it is a gift for the guilty."
                                                                                 Steve Lawson



          "The reason the church tries so many other things besides preaching
     Christ is because it suspects the kingdom can be established some other
    way.  But there is no other way.
          "People will not come into the kingdom because they like the minister,
     support the children's program, or enjoy the music.  They may come into
     a church that way, but not into the kingdom.
          "The only way people ever come into God's kingdom is by hearing
     His heralds proclaim a crucified King."
                                                                                 Philip Graham Ryken


          "We never need shout across the spaces to an absent God.  He is nearer
     than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts."  A.W. Tozer